Rick Bayless shutters San Francisco outpost of Frontera Fresco

Frontera Fresco — the celebrity chef restaurant that was hidden in the basement of Macy’s — has shuttered after a little more than six years. It follows another celebrity chef takeout spot — Wolfgang Puck Express — out the door, which shuttered in 2011.

Frontera Fresco was the first — and to this point, only — Bay Area restaurant for Chicago chef Rick Bayless, who empire now includes a number of restaurants, including three Chicago-area outposts of his casual taqueria, Frontera Fresco. He is also involved in the expanding Los Angeles restaurant Red O.

Alas, Frontera Fresco never quite caught on the city, at least amongst locals, though Bayless did make Bay Area headlines last year when he commented that San Francisco restaurants were “all a little bit too alike.”

Earlier this morning, Macy’s sent out a press release advertising its new Mexican restaurant has already opened in the same location, at the beginning of the month: Tortilla Kitchen. It apparently features “South Texas-style smothered burritos” so there’s that.